Anti-Capitalist Fashion Week – launches The Reading Room

Anti-Capitalist Fashion Week – launches The Reading Room

The NewBridge Project will present a series of events as part of the Anti-Capitalist Fashion Week as part of the national launch of The Reading Room.

Join us to expand on the environmental focus of exhibition Habit, Ability! by highlighting ways of working, thinking, and acting which challenge the current fashion industry within the dominant Capitalist system, with The Reading Room. We have curated a series of events focussing on a new book in The Reading Room’s collection – Tansy E Hoskins ‘The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion’.

The Reading Room partners – Left Bank Leeds, The Sustainable Studio (Cardiff), The Old Waterworks and TOMA (Southend-on-Sea) and Pluto Press – are also hosting events as part of the programme.

The Reading Room is a new collaborative project where people can read, learn, listen, and share ideas.

Through linking up with other spaces across the country, we’ve created libraries stocked with thought provoking books, where reading groups and opportunities to meet authors are being established, providing resources and activities that hope to catalyse creativity, collaboration and conversation.

The organisations involved share a common goal – to support and empower people within their communities. This project has been initiated in partnership with independent publisher Pluto Press, and the Left Book Club, and over time, each local hub will develop to reflect and serve the community within which it sits, making each space responsive and unique.

As well as physical library spaces, The Reading Room will open up forums to debate local issues that affect everyday lives. Taking the lead from our communities, these topics may include inequality, the environment, precarious employment, LGBTQ+ issues, structural racism and much more.